Conway Twitty's daughter, Kathy
wants to set the
record straight
about how and why she believes her father's memory is being tarnished.
Kathy's remarks are presented below, as is the release that is
reprinted by permission of Brenda Little and Kathy Jenkins. Both
opinions are being reprinted here exclusively in their entirety
(including typos).

I have read and heard some
unfavorable comments since the
[September 22, 1999] CMA Awards show. Once again I find Joni, Jimmy and
Michael are the
topic of distasteful gossip in this town.

People are wondering and
commenting as to why no one accepted
our
father’s award as he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Some have said it is because we
were being difficult. I can
assure you that is untrue. Let me set the record straight:

Let me start at the beginning. We
found out through the
grapevine
about Dad’s induction. No one called from the CMA or from Dad's estate
offices to inform us. I called the CMA offices to see if it were true.
They confirmed that Dad had indeed been chosen and would be inducting
him into the Hall of Fame in September.

At that point I gave them our
phone numbers and told them that
we
(his children) would like to be included in the preparation and to be
present on award night. They told me that the usual rule was that they
dealt with the spouse of a deceased artist. I told them that we did not
care if Dee was there, but since Daddy had died we were always excluded.

There were only a few exceptions:
When Dolly Parton put Dad in
her
memorial garden and when the ROPE [Reunion of Professional
Entertainers] Awards honored him. Both of them insisted that we were
all welcome. Dee objected, but they stood firm. In the end. Dee did not
attend either of them.

The sad truth is that ninety-nine
percent of the time we are
never
told of tributes to Dad. Since his death, Dee has been present and
accepted awards all across the country on his behalf and she has kept
these awards.

These awards are property of the
Conway Twitty Estate that my
brothers and sister inherited from our father. When I suggested to her
that she return them, her answer was "They give them to me." I told her
“No, they give them to Dad."

In his will he left us his entire
estate, including the rights
to
his famous name, image and music. As hard as our father’s widow has
tried to destroy his will by contesting it, after an over six year,
multi-million-dollar battle, the appellate courts upheld his will and
those properties will go to his children, just as he intended.

The appellate courts, along with
our father, gave us the power
to
control this legendary name, image and music and no one can represent
the name Conway Twitty without permission of the Estate.

We are the ultimate owners and
Dee cannot accept any award
without
permission. We told the CMA this, Dee knows this, yet the CMA informed
us they would have to take this to their committee. Our attorneys
explained once again the situation, even sending them copies of the
will as well as the ruling from the appellate court. Dee could not
represent without permission.

They then informed us through our
attorneys that they had
forgotten;
that they had a new policy that no one would accept on the behalf of a
deceased artist.

Why had they not told us this in
the beginning? It seemed to
me that
if Dee could not accept the award, no one was going to. I personally
objected, telling them through our attorney that I felt this was
disrespectful to Daddy's memory; that it would be wrong for no one to
represent Dad at such a moment. We suggested a compromise: That one or
all of his grandchildren accept instead of the adults involved. They
refused.

We did not want any bad press to
fall on our fathers time in
the
spotlight. So we handled all of this through attorneys and as quietly
and tactfully as we could. We told the CMA we did not want to bring
them into our estate problems. The truth is the fight is over and we
won. All that is left is determining Dee's one-third.

But the CMA did not stay neutral.
They put the camera on Dee
with a
caption underneath that said she was Dad's widow. They put the camera
on Joni, Jimmy and Michael and there was no caption. [Editor’s note: I,
Stacy Harris have a different memory of this, but I don’t have a
videotape of the program].

No one knew Conway Twitty's
children were there to support
him. The
CMA knew where his family was sitting. They knew their names. It looked
as if Conway Twitty's children were not present.

Then the final act of disrespect
came the next day. The CMA,
along
with the Country Music Hall of Fame, held a private luncheon at the
Governor’s Mansion. (The man from the Hall of Fame who put all this
together now works for the Ear Foundation. They, along with Dee put
together a tribute to Dad and not only were we not invited, but we had
to sneak in under false names. When we questioned them as to why they
chose to exclude us there answer was "they felt they had Conway's
closest living relative." )

Back to the event at the
Governor’s mansion: They did not
invite my
brothers, sister nor myself, yet they did invite Dee and she accepted
an award on his behalf. It is amazing to me that they would blatantly
show such favoritism. They knew the situation. But they chose to ignore
us, causing us once again to miss a once in a lifetime opportunity to
be present when our father was being awarded.

It is a fact that we are the ones
our father chose to
represent him
after his death. Doesn't anyone care what he wanted? Dad would be
furious at all of this. He was very specific in his will: He intended
for his bloodline for many many generations to carry on his life's
work. Anyone who does not follow his wishes is dishonoring his memory.
The CMA and Hall of Fame included.

I chose not to attend the awards
for three reasons: First, I
stayed
at home with our mother. This was a very emotional night for her. She
and Daddy created his legacy together. They were married nearly 30
years and through their hard work and sacrifice Conway Twitty became
the legend that was being honored.

Second, we were only given four
tickets to the CMA Awards
show.
There are four of us. My younger brother Jimmy would not go without his
wife of eleven years. I could not have enjoyed the show if he were not
there. We ask the CMA for just one more ticket for Stacy, but they
refused, although they did give Dee an extra ticket, so I gave my
brother my ticket.

Third, I was and am disgusted
with the way the CMA, along with
the
Hall of Fame, treated my family during all of this. In my opinion, they
caused the situation to be inflamed by choosing sides. How did they
expect us to react?

I remained silent until the
gossip started, but I will not sit
quietly by while my family is misrepresented by the very people who
handled this so badly. I told the CMA this and I will tell you: Dad
himself would not have shown up if his children were being mistreated.
He never treated us disrespectfully and never allowed anyone else to,
including Dee. But since the day he left this world, in my opinion, she
has released her resentment and contempt of her late husband's family
with a vengeance. She knew better than to do this in his presence. He
would never have allowed it.

She seems to be angry with us for
defending his will in the
courts.
Angry that we won in the higher courts. But I believe with all my heart
that when she contested Dad's will, she attacked my father. And when
she represents him at any awards show she is disobeying the final
wishes of his will.

It completely baffles me as to
why she doesn't seem to care
what he
wanted. She loves to tell of this unsigned will to confuse and convince
people that he would want her to fight us. I don't buy it at all. I
know better. I feel she is dishonoring him instead.

I watched her as the camera
scanned the audience after the CMA
played the video tribute to Daddy the other night. Everyone stood up to
honor our father but Dee. Joni, Jimmy and Michael stood with tears
streaming down their faces. But Dee sat dry eyed and for some reason
she was unable to bring herself to her feet.

Sitting at home, I was not
surprised: Six and one half years
of
fighting her has made me wise. In my opinion, I haven’t seen her honor
him yet.

For Immediate Release

Contact Brenda Little

Attorney at Law

209 Tenth Avenue South

Nashville, Tennessee 37202

Phone: 615-244-2445

BIG VICTORY FOR CONWAY
TWITTY'S CHILDREN

AS APPELLATE COURT RULES

Nashville, June 21, 1999: Conway Twitty’s
children had two
well-earned reasons to celebrate this week. The first was the
announcement that the late superstar will be inducted into the Country
Music Hall of Fame in the fall of this year. The second was that the
Appellate Court of Tennessee ruled in their favor on three major issues
involving their father’s estate. These rulings, if lost could have
caused Conway’s adult children, Michael, Joni, Kathy and Jimmy, their
Inheritance, and could have resulted in the ultimate destruction of
Conway Twitty’s Will.

After six long years of battling
to preserve their father’s
Last
Will & Testament In the trial courts, Conway’s children
received
confirmation that their fight has not been in vain. They won on three
out of five issues. These substantial victories will help to keep
Conway Twitty’s musical legacy in his bloodlines as his will instructed.

The first victory was over a very
critical issue concerning
the
widow’s elective share of the estate. Dee Henry Jenkins, their father’s
widow, had demanded in the lower court and was receiving a majority
share of the estate. Dee Henry Jenkins, their father’s widow, had
demanded in the lower court and was receiving a majority share of her
late husband’s estate. The estate executors and their attorneys stood
with the widow and against Conway’s children on the issue. Brenda
Little, lead counsel on behalf of the children, told the court that
anything above the one third allotted to a surviving spouse not named
in a Will "flew in the face of Tennessee law." The Appellate Court
agreed.

The second victory came when the
Appellate Court upheld the
children’s request that the widow not be allowed to take one third of
the property settlement allotted to Conway Twitty’s first wife of 30
years, Mickey Jenkins.

The third victory was on the
issue of the widow receiving
double the
income she should have on the late superstar’s royalties. Again, the
executors and the attorneys stood with the widow on this issue. The
Appellate Court judges explained in their ruling that the surviving
spouse was receiving money from both the royalties and the appraised
value of these royalties. They further stated, "We decline to approve
such a method of distribution that allows the surviving spouse to
‘double-dip.’" The Appellate court agreed for a third time with the
children of the late superstar and overturned the ruling.

Conway’s children are thrilled
with these rulings, but this is
not
the first time they have sought justice from the Appellate Court of
Tennessee. Previously, they appeared before the Appellate Court when
the estate executors had accused them of owing their father thousands
of dollars at his death. The executors won in the lower court but the
Appellate Court overturned that decision, claiming that the executor’s
proof was not credible. "It cost us almost as much to fight on this
issue as they claimed we owed," Kathy Twitty stated. "But we were
fighting on principal. The charges were false and the Appellate Court
agreed, and we were vindicated."

Conway Twitty died on June 5,
1993 leaving a Last Will
&
Testament naming his four adult children as his sole heirs. Shortly
after his death, his wife of six years who Conway had provided for
substantially outside of his Will, challenged his final wishes by
contesting his Will. Battle lines were drawn and a very private issue
became a very expensive and very public battle.

"This was a war we had to fight,"
commented Joni Twitty after
receiving news of their victory. We knew from the beginning when our
father’s widow began to ask for and receive more than her share allowed
by law that our father’s estate could easily be bankrupted. This would
have destroyed all he worked for. Nothing on earth could have stopped
us from fighting for what our father wanted. So we dug in our heels and
fought back on Dad’s behalf. We have sacrificed everything we have to
keep our fight alive. After all he did for us, we both feel that this
is the least we can do for him."

Conway’s daughters have felt so
strongly about the way their
father’s Last Will & Testament has been literally destroyed in
the
courts that they testified before the Tennessee State Laws governing a
dissenting spouse. "Although the changes in the law will not help us,
they will help prevent other families from going through the same hell
that we’ve been forced to go through," Joni added. "The new law was
appropriately named ‘The Conway Twitty Amendment.’

Kathy Twitty agreed with her
sister. "It’s not over yet. W
still
have some important issues to address, but this victory is big and it
gives us hope. It makes us more determined than ever to see that our
father’s legacy remains in his bloodline and that it be placed safely
in a trust as his Will instructed so that we can pass it on to his
grandchildren and great grandchildren and so on as it should be."

Ironically, Conway’s children
received word of their victory
on
Father’s Day. "We took more than just flowers to our father’s grave
this Father’s Day," Kathy continued, "we took him justice."

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